.....Why would you do this?

I guess to get acheivments...?

No, I've known about it from the first day playing the game. Thought it was odd that the game even started.

My question is... why would you do this? What's the point? You don't really play the game this way.

EDIT: Oh, So you're stat-padding. Again, whats the point? Stats don't make you better, might make someone THINK you're better, in which case they'll overestimate your skill and play harder. Which is good, I guess. However, that's an iffy conclusion.

Additionally, it's more beneficial to have an excess of losses on your stats. So when you play a real person they underestimate you so you beat them. But again, an iffy conclusion, a good player should never underestimate his opponents.

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Seriously.

AFAIK, only those who are so much more interested in what numbers on a specific screen say then the amount of fun and satisfaction it takes to actually get good stats are the ones who would use this. I personally think this kind of thing is pathetic to exploit.

Hmmmm.... there should be a special "achievement" that appears on all accounts that the CD key is bind to that displays whenever the name is shown and is earned by "winning" games in this manner. Oh, and their stats (assuming anything is genuine) actually get worse when they do this as well.

The easiest fix is for games not to count if they end in the first 5 minutes.

I would also like this because sometimes a Host has to restart a game.

This is hardly a major exploit, and has been known for ages upon ages. But considering it doesn't get you anything it's not even an exploit.

If you pad your online stats with it but play with someone and get your butt handed you do, they'll just laugh that much more because of your score

once again I am on the opposite side of Annatar. This is an exploit and this makes the whole ranking system now worth nothing.

I've posted this "exploit" in several threads before this one (one thread was on people complaining about other ppl leaving games - I posted that if they wanted to pad their record with wins they 'ought' to have, they can just do this)

However, I hardly feel that this is an exploit. It's a design bug, yes, but it doesn't break the game and thus not an exploit. All it does is decrease what would take 5 minutes to 1 minute (remember, you still have to load and go through all the front end menus). If you play a super small map (ie. next door) and rush the comp, you can win in 5 minutes. Hell, just set the comp to dunce and send a marza over to their homeplanet while pumping light frigs to clean up everything else.

Most good players don't look at people's records anyways. The way records are determined, with no official ladder standing to back them up, really mean nothing. If you're a completely new player, then yes, a guy with 500 games will look very intimidating. Skill-wise, it's non-determining.

There's a whole lot more issues that need fixing over this one.

Edit: Also, when i first started the game, I found this out on the first day of playing. Thus began an account (not jinx) with more wins than possible in the time the game was out.

Edit 2: Then again, I realize I may not fall under the normal demographic since I generally only play in-house/clan match/pug... and i haven't played in 2 months, I think.

There is no ranking system right now....with player drops etc it really doesn't matter as it doesn't really reflect success/failure.

Maybe when the new online system takes effect there would be a point but you'd have to be slightly retarded to care that much about your wins under the current system